The center, operated with the city, serves about 100 people a day.
A trade school and medical center are also operated by the monks.
By 1941, the organization was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients.
It is one of 29 centers owned and operated by the city.
Those centers, he said, would be operated by nonprofit agencies.
The new center would be built by a private consortium and operated commercially.
The centers are operated by school systems, local health departments, social agencies and hospitals.
These include about 12 miles of county roads and an environmental center operated by the county.
It is the only program of its kind in the country, modeled on centers operated by the British probation system since 1970.
There is also a community learning centre operated by Aurora College.